The governor of Minnesota closed a legal loophole this week in the state’s marital rape law -- just one of what advocates describe as scores of legal loopholes still permeating state criminal justice laws from coast to coast.
Marital rape laws have been in place in all 50 states for more than a quarter century, but a number of those states -- like Minnesota -- have had exemptions in place which specified certain circumstances in which what would typically be considered rape if it happened between strangers, is not considered a crime between a married or existing couple.
In 2017, Minnesota state prosecutors dropped rape charges against Teeson’s ex-husband due to the loophole, and he ultimately pled guilty to invasion of privacy and served 30 days behind bars, according to reports about the case in the Associated Press and the New York Times. Aequitas, a national non-profit that focuses on achieving justice in cases of violence against women, accumulated data before the Minnesota law change that indicates there are exemptions in 41 of the 57 jurisdictions that they examined, which includes all 50 states, American territories, and the military.
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